Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 22 | Page 38

Kaspersky Partner Program, reflecting Kaspersky Lab’s progressive adoption of global mega-trends and continued commitment to invest in – and strengthen – its channel partners’ businesses. “As a platinum and industrial cybersecurity partner, we’re seeing clients put more emphasis on IT to align to their enterprise objectives, focus IT investments physical security and a wide range of building applications, services and IoT use cases via a unified cloud experience. “HID Origo lays the foundation for a broad ecosystem of cloud-based access control technologies, products, services and business models that will accelerate workplace innovation; it dramatically increases our partners’ capabilities to create customer or site at a time, HID Origo will make it possible to develop new applications and integrated solutions for HID’s complete installed base of millions of access control devices and systems – all at once. on specific solutions that deliver real business value and partner with companies who have their unique needs at heart. “The days of ‘one-size-fits-all’ approaches to IT are over, it’s now the age of the collaborating specialist, which is clearly a strategic imperative of Kaspersky Lab too.” more connected and seamless building experiences for end-users,” said Hilding Arrehed, Vice President of Cloud Services, Physical Access Control, with HID Global. “The platform will remove integration barriers between access control systems and smart building applications, and we will continue to expand its value with capabilities that further improve how people securely move through a facility and interact with its services.” The new platform provides an app- based innovation model that delivers a comprehensive suite of integration, enablement, developer tools and services geared towards simplifying how partners and a growing community of new developers and resellers bring access control solutions to market. Rather than requiring that entire solutions be developed and enabled one extensions into mobile devices, HID readers and controllers, and gives developers direct access to this hardware via HID Origo application programming interfaces (APIs) and software developer kits (SDK) already proven through HID’s mobile access solution. The platform also enables data analytics to be used for new capabilities, including remote reader configuration, predictive access control system maintenance and intent detection for more seamless and personalised workplace experiences. HID Global launches cloud platform to enhance connected workplace HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, has announced the availability of its HID Origo cloud platform that opens a new world of opportunities for partners to create more seamless and intuitive workplace experiences that are built on HID’s proven access control infrastructure. The platform combines HID’s technologies for mobile IDs (and location services in the future) with its expansive access control architecture to bring together 38 How HID Origo works The HID Origo platform embeds cloud connections and IoT functionality as app Enabling new business models for ordering and managing mobile IDs The platform enables subscription-based services, with customers already taking advantage of the model’s simplicity. Examples include a deployment by a world-leading biotechnology company which has been an early adopter of HID Origo subscription services for ordering and managing mobile ID replenishment over the air when employees lose or must replace their smartphones. The company has replaced its traditional access control readers with 2,300 Bluetooth- enabled iCLASS SE readers to support its mixed environment of 12,000 mobile IDs and 40,000 Seos ID cards. The subscription billing model offered through HID Origo makes it easier for the company to order and manage mobile IDs while improving forecasting, budgeting and reporting. It also streamlines transferring mobile ID subscription licenses across employees and registering multiple mobile IDs across multiple devices without any additional cost. ˜